After months of speculation of whether Manafort would "flip" on his campaign associates and Trump, Manafort never reached a deal with prosecutors. But why wouldn't Manafort roll the dice on the jury and hope for the President's sympathies now? Trump has offered pardons to several others, especially to those convicted of public corruption crimes, and tweeted his support of Manafort. Devine also discussed how Manafort and Gates in 2014 sought unsuccessfully to pivot toward helping a budding opposition party and working for the current Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. Andres pelted questions at a quick clip and showed more than a dozen documents to the jury as evidence of Devine and Manafort's Ukrainian work.

Source: CNN August 01, 2018 00:56 UTC